Current events of February 1, 2011 (2011-02-01) (Tuesday) |
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- Business and economy
- The owner of China's fourth-most visited website, Sohu.com Inc, posted a better-than-estimated 41 percent gain in profit after the company raised prices and boosted services such as video sharing. (China Daily)
- A court in London bars the oil company BP from entering into a planned joint venture and share swap with Rosneft, a state-controlled Russian company. (Reuters)
- Disasters
- International relations
- Law and crime
- U.S. soldier Bradley Manning, the alleged whistleblower who is thought to have revealed secret U.S. government documents to the international public, is reported to be held in solitary confinement awaiting trial by the United States for seven months now, treatment which the United Nations deems a form of torture when used for such prolonged periods. (Al Jazeera)
- The Karmapa Lama, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan Buddhism's third-highest lama, is questioned by police after large amounts of foreign money are found at his monastery in Dharamsala, northern India. Some Indian media allege he is acting as a spy for China. (Asia Times Online)
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Current events of February 2, 2011 (2011-02-02) (Wednesday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2011 Egyptian protests:
- Egyptian protesters continue nationwide demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak for a ninth day. (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian)
- Mohamed ElBaradei, an emerging leader of anti-regime protests, and other protesters say that Mubarak must leave Egypt by Friday at the latest to avoid further bloodshed and turmoil. (The Australian)
- The protestors increase their demands for the end of the Mubarak regime and are not impressed by Hosni Mubarak's promise to resign at the end of his current term. (Al Jazeera)
- Clashes occur in Cairo and Alexandria between supporters and opponents of President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak with one person dead and 700 injured. (BBC) (Euronews) (Fox News) (Al Jazeera)
- Mubarak supporters, rumored to be directed by the Mubarak regime, protest in central Cairo, Alexandria and other cities, attacking anti-government protestors with stones, knives and Molotov cocktails. (The Washington Post)
- Some supporters of the Mubarak regime ride horses and camels and attack anti-government protesters with whips. (AP via The Guardian)
- Two Molotov cocktails are thrown into the grounds of the Egyptian Museum. (The Guardian)
- The United Nations (Navi Pillay) believes as many as 300 people have been killed in Egypt over the last nine days. (Almasry Alyoum)
- Amr Moussa, Arab League Secretary General and a former Egyptian foreign minister, says he would "seriously" consider whether to seek the Egyptian presidency. (The Jerusalem Post)
- The Egyptian Army calls on protesters to "help restore normal life". (Reuters)
- Mohamed ElBaradei, of the Egyptian opposition, raises concerns that clashes in Cairo could escalate into a "bloodbath". (Los Angeles Times)
- Egyptian state television warns the people of Egypt to evacuate Tahrir Square in Cairo. (The Guardian)
- Internet access is partially restored in Egypt after a five-day blackout. (Al Jazeera)
- Al Jazeera urges Egyptian satellite company Nilesat to resume broadcasting its signal or face legal action. (Reuters)
- Al Arabiya journalist Ahmad Abdallah is reported missing but later found after being beaten by pro-Mubarak supporters. (The Guardian)
- Pro-Mubarak protestors attack CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and his crew. The attack is successfully filmed. (Huffington Post) (The Guardian)
- The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) compiles a list of members of the media who have come under attack in Egypt today. (The Guardian) (Committee to Protect Journalists)
- International response to the 2011 Egyptian protests:
- 2011 Yemeni protests: President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh backtracks on his plan to rule Yemen for life and to then allow his son to inherit his rule during an emergency session of parliament ahead of tomorrow's "day of rage" against his three-decade rule. (Al Jazeera) (AP) (The Times of India)
- The army in Mauritania destroy a car packed with explosives outside the capital Nouakchott, killing three people suspected of being members of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. (BBC) (AFP via Google News)
- WikiLeaks reveals that the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation had launched an investigation of a previously unknown group of men believed to be involved in the September 11 attacks. (Daily Telegraph)
- At least two people are dead and ten injured following the explosion of a car bomb in a commercial area of the Pakistani town of Peshawar. (AP via Atlanta Journal Constitution) (Jerusalem Post)
- Arts and culture
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- The Sudanese government, in its first official reaction after preliminary results were announced indicating a landslide vote in favor of Southern Sudan's independence, agrees to accept the results; Vice-President Ali Osman Taha says the government intends "to pursue a policy of good neighbourly relations with the south". (The Australian)
- Awards for the WikiLeaks website and Julian Assange:
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Current events of February 3, 2011 (2011-02-03) (Thursday) |
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- Armed conflict and attacks
- 2011 Egyptian protests:
- Anti-government protestors continue to protest against the Mubarak regime for a tenth day. (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian)
- Protesters detain 120 people with IDs linking them to the police or ruling party; most were attacking protesters at the time. (The Guardian) (Ynetnews)
- A tense standoff between supporters and opponents of President Hosni Mubarak continues in Cairo, with at least three people killed and 1,500 injured in fighting on Wednesday. (CNN) (AP via PhilStar) (Sky News)
- At least three people are killed as a result of gunfire in Cairo's Tahrir Square. (AFP via Brisbane Times) (Al Jazeera)
- Egyptian prime minister Ahmad Shafiq says "sorry" for all the violence that has occurred in Tahrir Square and promises there will be no more. (Al Jazeera)
- Journalists from Al Jazeera and the BBC are among those targeted in fresh attacks from Mubarak regime "thugs". The UK's Channel 4 News reports that Mubarak's "secret police" are threatening journalists to keep off the streets of Cairo. (The Guardian)
- Prominent Egyptian blogger and anti-Mubarak activist sandmonkey is arrested and his blog is taken offline by authorities in Egypt. (The Guardian) (Hot Air)
- Egyptian state television forments the unrest by reporting that "Israeli spies" have infiltrated Cairo, leading to an increase in antisemitic sentiment among the pro-Mubarak forces attacking people and journalists on the streets. (Al Jazeera) (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) (Channel 4 News)
- Two Al Jazeera journalists are attacked on their way from the airport to central Cairo. (The Guardian)
- Nile TV (state television) journalist Shahira Amin, deputy head of the station, resigns after being threatened and intimidated; she tells Al Jazeera "I can't be part of the propaganda machine and I refuse to be a hypocrite", adding that she feels "liberated". (iloubnan) (Gulf News)
- Journalists from Al Jazeera and The Washington Post are arrested by Egyptian authorities; Swedish television loses contact with correspondent Bert Sundström. (M&C) (The Guardian) (The Washington Post)
- Representatives of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are arrested. (Amnesty International) (BBC) (The Guardian)
- Mobile phone firm Vodafone says the Egyptian authorities have hijacked its network to send unattributed text messages supporting the government. (BBC)
- Egypt's attorney-general bans several former ministers and Ahmed Ezz, a prominent member of the ruling party who resigned last week, from travelling abroad; their bank accounts are also frozen. (Al Jazeera)
- Video footage emerges on YouTube of a police van being driven at high speed into peacefully marching anti-regime protesters. (The Guardian) (Direct link)
- Four members of the April 6 Youth Movement, an opposition group known for organising events on Facebook, are arrested by Egyptian authorities. (The Guardian) (Wired)
- Hosni Mubarak breaks his silence to grant an interview to Christiane Amanpour of America's ABC News inside his palace. (The Guardian) (Reuters) (BBC)
- An ABC News crew are carjacked and threatened with decapitations by pro-Mubarak supporters. (The Guardian) (The Hollywood Reporter) (The Huffington Post)
- The United States Senate passes a motion supporting democracy in Egypt and calling on President Hosni Mubarak to begin transferring power. (Washington Post)
- 2011 Yemeni protests: Thousands of pro- and anti-government supporters demonstrate in Yemen over the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in a planned "day of rage". (Al Jazeera)
- 2010–2011 Algerian protests: President Abdelaziz Bouteflika vows to lift the country's state of emergency, in force since 1992, in the "very near future". (BBC)
- 2011 Syrian protests: Social media mobilises the people of Syria for rallies demanding freedom, human rights and the end to emergency law, scheduled for Friday and Saturday in front of the parliament in Damascus and at Syrian embassies internationally. (Al Jazeera)
- Gunmen open fire in Thailand's majority Muslim Pattani Province killing five people and injuring three people. (AFP via ABC News) (Thai News Agency)
- Awal Gul, an Afghan accused of being a Taliban base commander, who has been imprisoned without charge since 2002, dies while exercising at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. (Miami Herald) (BBC)
- Business and economy
- The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation announces that world food prices have risen to a record high. (FAO) (Reuters) (BBC)
- The price of a barrel of Brent crude oil rises to $103 following violent clashes in Egypt. (Reuters)
- Disasters
- Law and crime
- Italy's parliament rejects a search request by prosecutors investigating Silvio Berlusconi for having sexual intercourse with an under-age prostitute. (BBC)
- A former policeman questions the suicide verdict recorded in the 1979 death of French cabinet minister Robert Boulin, claiming he could not have drowned. His family believe he was murdered. (BBC)
- Politics and elections
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Current events of February 4, 2011 (2011-02-04) (Friday) |
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Current events of February 5, 2011 (2011-02-05) (Saturday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2011 Egyptian protests:
- 2010–2011 Tunisian uprising: Tunisian police shoot dead two people and injure another 17 during a protest in the city of El Kef. (BBC), (France24)
- Cambodian–Thai border stand-off: A Thai soldier is shot dead and four wounded in clashes with Cambodian troops in a disputed border area. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- At least 20 people are killed in a shootout among the military in Malakal, Southern Sudan. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
- Arts and culture
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- Politics
- The largest anti-government demonstration in years occurs in Belgrade, with thousands of disenchanted Serbs travelling to the parliament building from across the country to call for early elections there. An opposition party leader at the event compares it to the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. (BBC) (Deutsche Welle) (Reuters)
- Thousands of Italians attend a rally to demand the resignation of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi over a sex scandal. (Sky News)
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Current events of February 6, 2011 (2011-02-06) (Sunday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2011 Egyptian protests:
- People demonstrate against the Mubarak regime for the thirteenth consecutive day, dubbed the "Day of Martyrs" in memory of those killed. (Press TV) (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian)
- Graphic rooftop footage emerges of a protester being gunned down in Alexandria. (The Guardian)
- Protestors express anger at the governments of France, Israel and the United States due to their support of the thirty-year Mubarak dictatorship. (Press TV)
- Human Rights Watch expresses increased concerns at the continuing targeting by the Egyptian authorities of journalists, human rights defenders, and youth activists, while another Al Jazeera reporter is arrested. (The Guardian) (The Guardian)
- An Israeli man is released from custody. (Press TV)
- Traffic to Al Jazeera's English-language website, which features a live stream of events, increases by 2,500 per cent during the past week of its coverage of the events in Egypt, with as much as 60 per cent of this coming from the United States. (Los Angeles Times)
- Two people are married in Tahrir Square. (The Guardian)
- Images emerge on YouTube of a man being shot at close range, possibly by police, in Cairo / Alexandria; his condition is unknown. (Al Jazeera)
- Egyptian banks reopen for the first time in a week. (Reuters) (BBC) (The Guardian) (Al Jazeera)
- 2010–2011 Tunisian uprising
- Cambodian–Thai border stand-off
- Cambodia says a disputed 11th Century temple has been damaged on the third day of cross border clashes with Thailand. (BBC)
- U.S.-led forces kill four civilians, including a woman, in northern Afghanistan. (Press TV)
- Israeli soldiers have shot three Palestinians, two while they collected gravel from destroyed homes in Gaza, and another while he worked in the northern Gaza Strip. (People's Daily)(The Palestine Telegraph)
- The Indian Army insists it is to inquire "on its own" the death of a man in Kashmir, allegedly killed in an army ambush. His family says he was snatched from his home before being shot. (Sify) (Kashmir Observer)
- At least 50 people have died in a mutiny of the Sudan People's Armed Forces in southern Sudan. (Reuters) (BBC)
- The President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai says that a transfer of security authority from international to Afghan forces will begin on March 21. (CNN)
- The Indian Navy captures 28 suspected Somali pirates on a Thai fishing vessel in the Indian Ocean. (AP via the Washington Post)
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Current events of February 7, 2011 (2011-02-07) (Monday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Cambodian–Thai border stand-off
- Tunisia calls up recently retired soldiers to contain recent unrest. (AP via MSNBC)
- Business and economy
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Current events of February 8, 2011 (2011-02-08) (Tuesday) |
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Current events of February 9, 2011 (2011-02-09) (Wednesday) |
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- Somali pirates seize an oil supertanker off the coast of Oman. (BBC)
- At least seven people are killed and dozens of others are injured during three explosions in Kirkuk, Iraq. (Al Jazeera)
- Serial blasts rock Russia's Grozny, at least five people are wounded. (People's Daily)
- 2011 Egyptian protests:
- Business and economy
- Disasters
- A major fire breaks out in Bombay House, a historic building in Mumbai, India, which serves as the headquarters of the Tata Group, resulting in at least three deaths. (Press Trust of India via IBN-Live)
- Thieves tapping a Pemex oil pipeline cause a diesel fuel spill south of Tijuana in Mexico. (Reuters)
- Two small planes (took off from Langley Regional Airport) collide mid-air near Mission, British Columbia, in western Canada, with at least one person dead. (CTV)
- An explosion occurs in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States, resulting in two people being missing. (The Morning Call)
- International relations
- President of France Nicolas Sarkozy calls for an end to government ministers holidaying abroad after it emerges they went to countries such as Egypt and Tunisia while anti-regime protests were underway. The controversy has led to calls for resignations. (Al Jazeera)
- Korean talks
- U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano claims the possibility of terrorism being carried out against the country "has evolved significantly" and, she claims, is "at its most heightened state" since the 9/11 attacks". (BBC)
- In a new agreement, Denmark and Russia will for the first time, cooperate within military. (Jyllandsposten)
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Current events of February 10, 2011 (2011-02-10) (Thursday) |
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Current events of February 11, 2011 (2011-02-11) (Friday) |
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- Disasters
- The first investigation into yesterday's plane crash at Cork Airport is expected within a month; the airport remains closed today. (RTÉ)
- International relations
- An American man is held responsible for the "cold-blooded murder" of two men in Lahore, Pakistan, by city police chief Aslam Tareen. (BBC)
- China's foreign minister Yang Jiechi visits Zimbabwe as the countries agree a $10 billion trade deal. (BBC)
- North Korea asks its embassies worldwide to appeal for aid to feed its population. (The Independent)
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Current events of February 12, 2011 (2011-02-12) (Saturday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2010–2011 Algerian protests:
- 2011 Yemeni protests:
- Thousands of anti-government protesters gather in Sana'a calling for the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has ruled the country since 1978. (Al Jazeera) (AFP via Google News)
- Anti-government protesters march towards Sana'a University, chanting slogans such as "Get out, Get out Ali" and "The people want the regime to fall." (Times LIVE) (Press TV)
- Demonstrators also attempt to celebrate yesterday's resignation of President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak, brought down by an 18-day popular revolution, but police clamp down on the celebrations. (BBC)
- Yemeni police use clubs to beat those protesting against the Saleh regime, leaving Yemen's ally, the United States, in a "delicate position". (Taipei Times) (Radio New Zealand)
- The United States lifts its ban on freight flights from the country after finding Yemen to have sufficiently developed its airport security measures and that there would be "no problems with resuming cargo flights from Yemen anymore". (Yemen Post)
- Yemen's government offers its "respect" for the choice of the Egyptian people to protest and force the resignation of Hosni Mubarak. (Reuters)
- Mehbooba Mufti, People's Democratic Party (PDP) president, criticises the Jammu and Kashmir government for "dismissing the Kashmiri youth who led the summer unrest" as drug addicts and people from the Lashkar-e-Taiba, saying the situation is akin to Egypt and announcing protest demonstrations for 14 February. (The Hindu)
- An attack on police headquarters in Kandahar, Afghanistan, kills 16 officers and 3 civilians, and injures 53 others.(The New York Times) (Al Jazeera)
- The Government of Italy declares a humanitarian emergency after thousands of Tunisian immigrants land on the small island of Lampedusa. (Al-Jazeera)
- At least 33 people die following a suicide bombing near the Iraqi city of Samarra. (AFP via Yahoo News)
- Turkey releases its inquiry into the Gaza flotilla raid, finding Israel violated international law and used "excessive, indiscriminate and disproportionate force" during the attack. (AP via Google)
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Current events of February 13, 2011 (2011-02-13) (Sunday) |
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Current events of February 14, 2011 (2011-02-14) (Monday) |
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- Fourteen people die in a plane crash in Honduras including a deputy minister in the Government of Honduras Rodolfo Robelo and former finance minister Carlos Chahin. (BBC)
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Current events of February 15, 2011 (2011-02-15) (Tuesday) |
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- The Israeli Knesset has passed a bill making boycotting Israeli individuals or organizations illegal.(Haaretz)
- A proposal by a consortium of private contractors to attack WikiLeaks and to discredit journalists in favour of the website - including Glenn Greenwald - is uncovered after thousands of e-mails are leaked onto the internet, some of which call for people who donate to be tracked and intimidated. (The Independent)
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Current events of February 16, 2011 (2011-02-16) (Wednesday) |
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Current events of February 17, 2011 (2011-02-17) (Thursday) |
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- The European General Court rules in favour of Belgian and British broadcasting restrictions requiring football matches at the World Cup and European Championships on to be available on free-to-air TV. (BBC News)
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Current events of February 18, 2011 (2011-02-18) (Friday) |
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- The U.S. abandons its criminal investigation of Angelo Mozilo former chairman of Countrywide Financial, in connection with Countrywide's collapse in 2007-08. Mozilo settled a civil action four months ago. (L.A. Times)
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Current events of February 19, 2011 (2011-02-19) (Saturday) |
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- Iran's defense minister Ahmad Vahidi unveils 32 scientific and research projects conducted at Malek Ashtar Industrial University. (Press TV)
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- Arab Spring:
- 2011 Libyan civil war:
- 2011 Bahraini protests:
- Anti-regime demonstrators continue their overnight occupation of Pearl Roundabout junction in Manama, chanting "Get out Hamad" in reference to the country's ruler, having reclaimed the junction after earlier being forced out by authorities. (Al Jazeera)
- 2011 Moroccan protests:
- A coalition of Moroccan youth groups called “The February 20 Movement” calls for peaceful protests in cities throughout the country. (Al Arabiya)
- Protests spread to the city of Rabat as thousands march on the central Hassan II Avenue calling for health and educational reform, economic opportunity and assistance against increased cost of living. (Al Jazeera)
- Thousands of Moroccans demonstrate in Rabat demanding that King Mohammed VI give up some of his powers. (BBC) (Afrol News)
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- 2011 Chinese protests:
- 2011 Iranian protests:
- Iranians are invited to attend a protest rally in Tehran and other cities in commememoration of the two people killed while attempting to demonstrate for better freedoms last week. (Al Jazeera)
- Mehdi Karroubi, the opposition leader under house arrest, calls for his trial to take place in public so that people can "get to know the truth". He posts the request on his website since he cannot leave his house to personally deliver it. (Al Jazeera)
- NATO pledges to investigate itself amid reports of its recent killing of dozens of civilians in eastern Afghanistan. (BBC)
- War in Pakistan:
- War in Afghanistan:
- The death is announced of slain LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran's mother Vallipuram Parvathi. (The Hindu)
- Arts and culture
- British gay Muslims fight for equality and the right to be Islamically married. (BBC)
- Disasters
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Fifty-three people are killed in a 72-hour period in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (CNN)
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Current events of February 21, 2011 (2011-02-21) (Monday) |
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- Arab Spring:
- 2011 Libyan civil war:
- The Libyan Air Force launches airstrikes on crowds of protesters. Two civilian helicopters carrying French nationals and two Libyan Mirage jets land in Malta. The Libyan pilots claim that they received orders to bomb protesters, and request political asylum. (Ynetnews) (NPR) (Los Angeles Times) (The Atlantic)(Times of Malta)
- Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, a son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, warns in a nationally televised address that the protests could develop into a civil war. (AP via Houston Chronicle) (AFP via Google News)
- UAE-based Al Arabiya and Qatar-based Al Jazeera reported earlier that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, head of Libya, has left for Brazil or Venezuela. (Xinhua) (The Guardian)
- Libya's representatives to the Arab League, China, India and other countries resign in protest at the violence. (Haaretz) (The Guardian)
- Clashes and gunfire are reported in Tripoli for the first time. (Al Jazeera)
- Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an influential Muslim cleric and the spiritual leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, issues a fatwa ordering the death of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. (Africasia.com) (AFP)
- Islamic leaders and clerics in Libya urge all Muslims to rebel against Gaddafi. (Reuters)
- Hillary Clinton calls on Libyan authorities to "stop this unacceptable bloodshed". (Al Jazeera), (Reuters)
- 2011 Yemeni protests:
- 2011 Bahraini protests
- Situation in Somalia:
- A car bomb attack in Somalia kills 13 people. (Press TV)
- At least five people are killed and dozens injured in clashes between military forces from Somaliland and clan militias in the disputed Sool region. (AHN)
- An excavation begins at the Tokyo site of Unit 731, a covert Imperial Japanese Army biological and chemical warfare site that conducted human experimentation. (Japan Today)
- A suspected United States missile strike kills four militants in the South Waziristan region of Pakistan. (AP via Google News)
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Current events of February 23, 2011 (2011-02-23) (Wednesday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2011 Libyan civil war
- Italy's foreign minister says as many as 1,000 people have been killed in Libya during the unrest. (Reuters)
- Anti-government protestors and defectors take control of more cities. (Al Jazeera)
- The African Union condemns the "excessive use of force" against protesters. (African Press Agency) (AFP via Google News)
- Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs, accuses the US media of inciting violence. (AP via MSNBC)
- More than 5,700 people have fled Libya for Tunisia in the past couple of days. (Al Jazeera)
- Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the former Libyan Minister for Justice, claims that Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi personally authorised the Lockerbie bombing. (AP via Washington Post)
- Nations including the United Kingdom, the United States of America, France, the People's Republic of China, Russia, Italy and Greece evacuate their citizens from Libya. (Sky News)
- 2011 Yemeni protests:
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- Business and economy
- Disasters
- 2011 Canterbury earthquake:
- Snow and heavy winds affecting areas around Constanţa, Romania, are predicted to continue until late Friday evening. (EnglishHotNews)
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- 2011 Canterbury earthquake
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- Politics and elections
- Irish general election, 2011:
- The votes are counted, with exit polls predicting Fine Gael and the Labour Party to do well while the ruling Fianna Fáil is expected to do poorly. (AFP via Yahoo! News) (RTÉ) (The Irish Times)
- Paul Gogarty of the Green Party is the first to concede defeat via Twitter. (Business & Leadership) (The Irish Times)
- The first seat of the general election goes to Labour Party finance spokeswoman Joan Burton, who tops the poll in the Dublin West constituency. Leo Varadkar of Fine Gael and Joe Higgins of the Socialist Party take the second and third seats respectively in this four-seat constituency. (Press Association via Google News) (The Irish Times) (Irish Examiner)
- As the ruling Fianna Fáil party faces national wipeout, outgoing Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan, Jnr is saved by his own personality. He takes the final seat in the Dublin West constituency, the only Fianna Fáil candidate elected from 47 seats across the capital, with his brother Conor Lenihan and aunt Mary O'Rourke losing out in their bids for re-election elsewhere. (Reuters) (The Irish Times)
- Outgoing Tánaiste Mary Coughlan becomes the biggest loser of the Fianna Fáil meltdown, as her seat in the Donegal South–West constituency goes to Independent Thomas Pringle. (Irish Examiner)
- John Gormley, leader of the ruling coalition's Green Party and former Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, is eliminated in the Dublin South–East constituency. (The Irish Times)
- Independent long-serving outgoing Senator Shane Ross tops the poll in the Dublin South constituency. (The Irish Times)
- Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny tops the poll in the Mayo constituency and claims that the results are a "massive endorsement" of his party. (RTÉ) (BBC)
- The King of Bahrain Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa reshuffles his Cabinet in response the 2011 Bahraini protests. (CNN)
- Nearly 70,000 people attend a rally in the U.S. city of Madison, Wisconsin over plans by the Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker to remove collective bargaining rights from most state employees. (Wisconsin State Journal)
- Christy Clark becomes the second woman to be Premier of British Columbia after winning a Liberal Party of British Columbia ballot. (The Globe and Mail)
- Iran takes two opposition leaders Mir Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karrubi and their wives into protection supposedly for their own protection. (CNN)
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- Business and economy
- Disasters
- International relations
- Arab Spring
- Politics and elections
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- Arts and culture
- Frank Buckles, the last surviving veteran of World War I in the United States, passes away in Charles Town, West Virginia, aged 110. (AP via Fox News)
- Television advertising in the United Kingdom
- The ban on product placement in television programmes is lifted, allowing advertisers to pay for their goods to be seen on British TV. The first product to be displayed in this regard is a Nescafe coffee machine, which appeared on This Morning. (BBC) (Daily Telegraph)
- A year long trial also begins allowing commercial television channels to show up to 12 minutes of adverts per hour during films and dramas, bringing them into line with soap operas where this is already permitted. (Daily Telegraph)
- Hollywood actress and former sex symbol Jane Russell dies at age 89 of respiratory failure in Santa Maria, California. (Fox Central Florida), (Reuters), (Hollywood Reporter)
- Business and economy
- Disasters
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Former military leaders in Argentina go on trial on charges that they masterminded a plan to steal the children of dissidents. (Al Jazeera)
- Wing Chau, a money manager, files a lawsuit against Michael Lewis, the author of The Big Short, a popular book about the financial crisis of 2007-08. Chau alleges the book makes "false and defamtory statements" in order to use Chau as a foil for his protagonist, Steve Eisman. (Reuters)
- A court in the Seychelles sentences ten Somali pirates to 20 years in prison. (Reuters)
- In the United Kingdom, three senior fire officers from the Warwickshire Fire Service are to face manslaughter by gross negligence charges over the deaths of four firefighters in a warehouse blaze in 2007. (BBC)
- British Airways IT expert Rajib Karim is convicted on charges related to plotting to blow up a plane. (BBC)
- British security guard Danny Fitzsimons is jailed for 20 years by an Iraqi court after being convicted of murdering two colleagues. (BBC)
- Venezuelan union leader Ruben Gonzalez is sentenced to seven years in jail in connection with a strike at the state iron mining company. (Canadian Press via Google News)
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